Word: maltas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Malta's Constitutional Party, backed by the Labor Party, demanded self-government for the island. Unlike India's Congress, Malta's leaders did not demand complete independence. They asked only that Malta be a self-governing partner in the British Commonwealth; the British Government's promise of full self-government after the war would be good enough...
There was no official comment from London on the request. There was, however, a new account of how Malta carries on. An Englishwoman just returned to Britain reported that every time the sirens sounded she headed for the deep shelters. "Hey! How many?" she would shout to Maltese urchins along the way. If they answered: "Nine Stukas," she hurried on. If they answered: "Musso come today-spaghetti-not too much good-go home...
...apparently the scales were being slowly tipped. Algeria-based bombers of Major General Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force blasted Axis fields, crippling Axis fighter operations by bombing their nests. From Libya and from the island of Malta came other Allied bombers. Fighter bases were improvised in the rear of the rolling First Army, and from these, in swelling numbers, Spitfires rose to mix with swooping Axis dive-bombers...
From the bases already won, U.S. and British airmen can do much to relieve Malta. They can cover any final blow at Rommel's rear. They can launch the continuous bombings of Italy which Winston Churchill promised last week. They can pound the Nazis in southern France. They can keep tabs on the French fleet at Toulon. They can harass, if not prevent, any Axis move through Spain toward Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. With ground troops they can move upon Spanish Morocco if Franco wavers in his neutrality. By the Allies in North Africa, the Allies...
...second expert on the recent progress of French monarchism is the Pretender's cousin and advance agent, Charles, Due de Nemours. Throughout the war, on passports including those of the Vatican and the Knights of Malta, sporting young "Chappy" Nemours has shuttled between London (the late Duke of Kent was his boyhood playmate), Vichy (where Marshal Petain sees him instantly and at length) and Berlin. Chappy has also made his headquarters in Madrid, where he used to visit former U.S. Ambassador Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, relative of Chappy's blonde U.S. wife, the former Peggy Watson of Richmond...